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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much as his students in the Architectural School will miss the leadership of Professor Pray, they are but the least to regret his loss. A whole profession is the poorer for his passing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAMES STURGIS PRAY | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...whole incident becomes utterly grotesque when one asks, "Well, what is the 'situation' which Sir Austen so brusquely declared 'unchanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme & Sir Austen | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Germany-and from their standpoint alone-the payments of both bond and reparations indebtedness are of approximately equal importance. The allied governments could watch Germany default on her U. S. bonds with relative unconcern; but any representative of U. S. interests must take care that the whole burden imposed on Germany is not too heavy for her to bear-even if that means somes calling down of reparations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Iron Man & Velvet Glove | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...amend the law relative to obscene literature, which, as it now stands, has been responsible for the banning of about fifty books in the past year. The new measure would entirely eliminate books from jurisdiction under this law, and a book would be judged by its context as a whole rather than by a single phrase or paragraph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF THE DAWN | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

...altering the scope and method of instruction. Professors, assistant professors, and instructors will be Harvard teachers, not teachers of this or that 'House.' Degrees will be Harvard degrees carrying the authority of three hundred years of unbroken traditions. The President of Harvard University will be President of the whole University and all of its component parts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Explains House Plan to Graduates in Speech In St. Louis---Emphasizes Social Benefits to be Derived | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

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